Jessica Schmidt and David Eby
This week, news with Jessica Schmidt of Her Campus UBC, and a feature interview with Vancouver Point Grey MLA and all-round cool guy Dave Eby.
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Links from this episode:
- So you want to be the next UBC President? Applications now open. Position profile is up now too (skip to pg. 22 to save yourself the propaganda)
- This Tim Hortons line up cam at UBC-O is a continued source of fascination for Neal
- Condescension distilled in this statement by the Board Chair and Martha Piper. Once again, feel free to skip most of it – only the last few paragraphs are nominally relevant
- An eerily familiar tone in a hear-no-evil see-no-evil op-ed by the Deans
- A group of faculty are not convinced and are petitioning the Faculty Association to pass a motion of non-confidence in the Board. Faculty Association has received tips that some faculty are being pressured not to sign, and has responded
- AMS posts a fairly aggressive response to Gupta revelations
- Pride UBC flag burned
- Go on, check out Her Campus UBC
I’m a member of the UEL’s community advisory council (CAC) and I want to clarify a point that David Eby made:
The UEL residents asked the province for an incorporation study, not a general governance review. The specific goal is incorporation of the UEL into a real municipality, not to explore all possible options.
From what I remember, a general review was done before my time in the UEL that included options like joining Vancouver, incorporating with the UNA and UBC, etc. The outcome was that anything other than a UEL incorporation was not desirable for UEL residents.